My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
So begins Charles Dickens's classic novel Great Expectations
(1860-1861). You can read the novel in its entirety online at Wikisource, the free library.
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